The DOJ has lost its way. But, career people: please stay because America needs you. The country is hungry for honest, competent leadership. — James Comey (@Comey) May 7, 2020 And see the responses to that tweet; they’re priceless.
Continue reading →There’s almost too much news on the Flynn case to digest at once. Yesterday some documents were revealed, and today some more. Here’s the basic story that broke yesterday: My quick hot takes:1) They set up a perjury trap but … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] In the following, I’m discussing the Chris Wallace interview of James Comey that occurred last Sunday. Here’s the transcript, and here’s the video.] During the video, Wallace confronts Comey with the fact that … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I’ll probably post Part 2 tomorrow.] The interview Comey gave to Chris Wallace on Sunday was a study in evasion and deception. I could take it sentence by sentence and spend many hours analyzing each one, but I’m not … Continue reading →
I plan to fisk James Comey’s interview with Chris Wallace later today or perhaps tomorrow, but right now I want to say something else about it. I couldn’t actually watch Comey or listen to the whole interview. That’s probably a … Continue reading →
I have to say right upfront that I doubt it. It just seems to go that way. The state agencies are reluctant to charge their own bureaucrats, no matter what the violation, and the higher up the person is the … Continue reading →
Ordinarily I don’t watch a lot of TV news or opinion shows. But I have a tiny TV near my computer, and every now and then I turn it on and watch cable news if something especially important is happening … Continue reading →
The revelations in the report by IG Horowitz released yesterday are disturbing on many levels, but one of the deepest and most basic is of the power of institutions such as the FBI if they become corrupted and corrupt. What … Continue reading →
We had pretty much been told this is what we would get. And yes, this is what we got: A scathing inspector general report released Thursday said that fired FBI Director James Comey violated bureau policies by drafting, leaking and … Continue reading →
…and CNN has obligingly given him a Town Hall forum in which to attempt it. Such forums are usually reserved for presidential candidates, and although when last I checked Comey wasn’t running for that office, the field is getting so … Continue reading →
That’s the contention of the author of this article: “Amoral leaders [referring to the president] have a way of revealing the character of those around them,” wrote Comey without a hint of irony or self-awareness. Those whom the former FBI … Continue reading →
Victor Davis Hanson has written a new essay that fairly drips with well-deserved contempt for James Comey. One of my reactions to reading it was to wonder anew how it could be that Comey had been so well-respected prior to … Continue reading →